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Jen Dodds: Five reasons why ‘2 Deaf Foot’ are so important for the Deaf community (with BSL translation!)

July 12, 2019

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The 2 Deaf Foot fundraising page: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/2deaffoot?utm_term=95XY4Bk3b&fbclid=IwAR1GQCBDk9NOX6XRavZ8jqpd4osdtmxbmbez-BUMZq0IihIft0M4NRiikb0 It’s been a while since I wrote/signed for Limping Chicken – I’ve no […]

Chloe Norton: How I won the right to be accepted for jury duty

July 11, 2019

In 2017 I received a large, important looking, envelope. Inside was a summons for Jury Duty. I was extremely excited, […]

Holly Kramer: I’ll never forget my daughter’s first sign

July 10, 2019

“It must have been so amazing when she finally said her first word! What was it?” “Ermmmm…” The truth is, […]

Max Barber: Reintroducing a student union for deaf students – fill in the questionnaire!

July 5, 2019

Complete the questionnaire by clicking here! Some of you may or may not have heard of a group with the […]

Parents of deaf children complain at lack of Toy Story 4 subtitled screenings

June 28, 2019

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Thousands of deaf children could miss out on seeing Toy Story 4 because more than half of cinemas aren’t showing […]

Tyron Woolfe & Abigail Gorman: Our new Deaf LGBTIQA website, one year on!

June 25, 2019

Do you remember our post in June 2018? We wrote about launching the new Deaf LGBTIQA website, which was kindly […]

Chris Bojas: Improving access to mental health by translating into BSL

June 21, 2019

Mental health is a big issue nationally right now: it’s constantly in the news, and in particular there are some […]

Charlie Swinbourne: We should ask more questions of non-Deaf filmmakers making Deaf projects

June 20, 2019

Some of you will have seen a casting advert looking for a Deaf actor for a new short film which […]

Reg Cobb: Presenting a radio show… in sign language!

June 18, 2019

Being on the radio is something completely alien to deaf people and many hard of hearing people and when I […]

Sunil Suri: What it’s like to be moderately deaf

June 17, 2019

It was recently Deaf Awareness Week in the UK so I thought I’d write about my experiences of being deaf, […]